You can use a bonus action to animate a Tiny nonmagical item within 30 feet, creating a Dancing Item that helps you. The item can move, attack, and assist you for 1 minute or until it drops to 0 hit points.

Bardic inspiration and creation magic can be used to bolster allies, animate objects, or shape the battlefield through force of imagination.

She can turn a book, paper scrap, or mundane object into a meaningful tool of spellcasting or a temporary animated assistant.

You can inspire others through stirring words or music. A creature that receives your Bardic Inspiration die can add it to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw within the next 10 minutes. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Choose three skills. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make with those skills.

You can regain some of your expended spell slots when you finish a short rest. Once per day, after a short rest, you can choose expended spell slots with a combined level equal to or less than half your bard level, and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher.

You can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that does not already include your proficiency bonus.

You can inspire allies while resting. If a creature has a Bardic Inspiration die from you at the end of a short rest or long rest, it keeps the die.

You gain access to a Bard College, and at 3rd level you choose College of Creation. You learn additional creation and performance-based magic and can animate mundane objects with your artistry.

You gain expertise in one more skill of your choice.

You can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration to cast a bard spell without material components if it lacks a costly material component.

You can cast certain spells as rituals if they have the ritual tag and are in your spellbook of known bard magic.

You can give Bardic Inspiration to allies and later improve it with your higher bard levels. At 5th level the die becomes a d8, at 10th a d10, and at 15th a d12.

When a creature uses your Bardic Inspiration die, it can also add it to an ability check made after seeing the roll but before knowing the outcome.

You choose two of your skill proficiencies to become even more reliable, and at 10th level you gain two more expertise choices.

When you use Bardic Inspiration on a creature, you can grant an extra benefit depending on its d20 roll and your subclass at higher levels.

Your animating magic can create multiple objects, and the number and durability of your dancing creations improve with level.

When you cast a bard spell that deals damage or restores hit points, you can use Bardic Inspiration to enhance the effect as your College of Creation feature improves.

When you cast a bard spell of 1st level or higher, you can expend Bardic Inspiration to create a nonmagical item of your choice in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of you, within size limits set by the feature.

Your Bardic Inspiration can fuel your subclass capstone, empowering a creature’s attack, check, or save with exceptional creation magic.

You can inspire a creature so intensely that it is immune to your Bardic Inspiration for a time if it fails to use the die well, reflecting your capstone mastery of creation.

You choose two additional spells from any class list to add to your bard spells known, representing the fullest breadth of your magical scholarship.

You gain a final improvement to your Bardic Inspiration feature, and your inspirational power becomes a reliable engine of heroic magic.

If you do not know a piece of lore, you usually know where and from whom you can obtain it. In cities, universities, archives, and among learned circles, people are often willing to aid you in exchange for a fair conversation or a scholarly favor.